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Lloyd,
I wonder if you can give me a clue as to what happened in this case: I
followed Cox's "migration" instructions, used the CD and loaded the
software. Once everything was working, I uninstalled all the Cox
software. The next time I rebooted there was no connection, and
ipconfig revealed that I was set back to my old @home ip address. I
manually entered the new ip address and gateway (that I had received
after converting) in the "alternate" tab in tcp/ip properties, and
regained the connection. It's been good for about 12 hours now, but
I'm wondering how long this will last considering ip addresses are
supposed to expire every four hours with the Cox system. . . (using
Windows XP).
Thanks in advance for any info. you can provide!
Suellen

Lloyd Wayne Reece <Lloyd@reece.net> wrote in message news:<3C334AC0.7C6370B@reece.net>...
> Thanks for the respect I was just trying to answer some questions you all had.
> I have had the internal training and I held the CD in my hands long enough to
> take it home and look thru it.  Yes the conversion can be done manually but I
> would not say that it could be done by the average user!  The average user now
> days just wants to click on something and go!  I understand a lot of High Speed
> Internet users are more knowledgeable (your assumptions are not most users)
> than that and I am happy for them but believe me their is a whole chunk of
> subscribers that readly and freely admit they know nothing about this computer
> and just want their internet back!!  I hear it everyday.
> 
> No doubt the CD can be hacked.  But I was told that at some point in the next 2
> months you will have to load the CD and register your computer with COX.  If you
> can accomplish that without installing the software great!!  I am not sure you
> can because the software is going to send all the necessary info to COX
> directly.  Like I said before their is nothing saying you can't uninstall the
> software 5 minutes after the regestriation process has been done!
> 
> One problem that I tried to commuicate back up the ladder that I think fell on
> deaf ears is the fact that the CD install software is totally mouse dependant!
> You have no keyboard stroke equivelents for any of the choices and if you are
> visually impaired you are even more out of luck because 99% of all the text in
> the install program is pure graphic and not text based at all so your screen
> reading program will not see it!
> Lloyd
> 
> PC Medic wrote:
> 
> > Lloyd
> >
> > With all do respect to your position with Cox Technical Support, where did
> > you get this information? Anything that will need to be done (which isn't
> > much) can be done manually by the average user. Of course this assumes
> > knowledge of how to change your mail and news account info, as well as IP
> > addy, DNS and Gateway info.
> > Not very hard and take all of 5 minutes.
> >
> > "Lloyd Wayne Reece" <Lloyd@reece.net> wrote in message
> > news:3C314C9C.DEDF0FCC@reece.net...
> > > You will have to install the software to register your computer with the
>  new
> > > Cox.net service but their is nothing saying you can't uninstall it after
>  you
> > > have registered!  I have seen the Cox.Net cd and it includes a "healing
>  agent"
> > > that can put your network settings back to right if they get trashed with
>  just a
> > > couple of mouse clicks!  The Cox.net CD does not contain a browser having
> > > learned the lesson from @home that an emasculated version of IE is worse
>  than
> > > anything!!!  The Cox.net CD will alter IE in on small detail.  It will put
>  the
> > > COX logo in the right hand corner where you see the IE logo now!!
>  Microsoft has
> > > long allowed and encouraged companies to put their "branding" on the
>  products!
> > >
> > > Lloyd
> > > Cox Tech Support
> > >
> > > Mr_Smyth wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know here if I will have to install their software when it
>  comes
> > > > out to keep my service up and running? The original @home software had a
> > > > program
> > > > called tioga that kept reporting (something) to an outside
> > > > source. The browser they supplied was hokey also.
> > >